Jul 3 1965
From The Space Library
U.S. Bureau of Mines said its scientists and engineers had begun research on how to tap the mineral resources of the solar system. This attempt to develop "extraterrestrial mining techniques" was being made at the Bureau's research center in Minneapolis for NASA. The idea was not to mine the moon and planets for materials usable on earth but rather to develop means of exploiting celestial bodies for resources explorers could use to build bases or travel farther into space. The Bureau said that, because of its nearness, the moon "is likely to be the site of the first extraterrestrial mine." (Bur. Mines Release, 7/4/65; UPI, NYT, 7/4/65, 27)
Gen. Charles P. Cabell (USAF, Ret,) was sworn in as consultant on organization and management development activities to NASA Administrator James E. Webb. Military assignments during his career included that of directing the Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff, He was deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1953 to 1962. (NASA Release 65-226)
Dr. N. M. Sissakian of the Soviet Academy of Sciences said in an article in Krasnaya Zvezda that the attention of Soviet biomedical researchers had been increasingly drawn to the complex effects of combinations of spaceflight factors. They were interested in the stability of cells and organisms to very low temperatures, and the effect of artificial cooling of animals on their ability to withstand oxygen deprivation, acceleration, radiation, and other factors. The ability of algae and lower animals to survive a vacuum was of interest to exobiologists, as was the ability of certain chemical compounds to screen out harmful effects of ultraviolet irradiation. As part of the continuing effort to simulate conditions existing on other planets and study their effects, soil infusoria were found able to adapt to the wide temperature range in a chamber simulating Martian atmosphere. (Krasnaya Zvezda, 7/3/65, 6)
Leonid I. Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, warned that Soviet nuclear missile strength was greater than Western intelligence estimates suggested. Speaking to graduates of the Soviet military academies during a Kremlin ceremony, Mr. Brezhnev said that the quantity of intercontinental and orbital missiles at Soviet disposal was "quite sufficient to finish off once and for all any aggressor or group of aggressors." Recent American intelligence reports had indicated U.S.S.R. had about 270 ICBM's, most of them slow-firing, liquid-fuel weapons that were unwieldy compared with Minuteman, Reference to orbital rockets had been made on at least two occasions in recent months: Moscow television made the claim in May , a June issue of the magazine Ogonek referred to them, Neither gave details. (Grose, NYT, 7/4/65, 1, 2; UPI, Shapiro, Wash, Post, 7/4/65)
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